Blond & Quantum
Quantum tech sounds complicated? It doesn’t have to be.
Welcome to Blond & Quantum – the podcast where business meets the bizarre beauty of quantum technologies.
I’m Eva – founder, strategist, and occasional quantum translator.
In each episode, I sit down with founders, scientists, investors and technologists to explore how quantum is already impacting industries like finance, logistics, pharma, energy and beyond.
No PhD required. Not even if you’re blonde. 😉
Expect real-world use cases, startup stories, and practical insights that go far beyond the buzzwords.
And yes – if you hear my black cat in the background... let’s just say he's very much alive. 🐈⬛
Subscribe and join the quantum-literate future – today.
Quantum without the equations. Real business. Real founders. Real cat.
Hosted by Eva – bringing the quantum conversation down to Earth. (And yes, her cat is alive.)
Episodes
16 episodes
Bond & Quantum Episode 10: The quantum era doesn't start with a computer, it starts with a connection | Reza Nejabati Head of Quantum Research at CISCO
Reza Nejabati, Head of Quantum Research at Cisco, joins Eva Galant on Blond & Quantum to pull back the curtain on the part of quantum most people never hear about — not the race to build a quantum computer...
Blond & Quantum #8: "We're not waiting for the future. We're selling quantum today." | Pouya Dianat - Chief Revenue Officer of Quantum Computing Inc.
Most quantum podcasts talk about physics. This one talks about money.Pouya Dianat, Chief Revenue Officer of Quantum Computing Inc., joins Eva Galant on Blond & Quantum to pull back the curtain on the busin...
Blond & Quantum Episode 8: Bond & Quantum Episode 9: "We've always lived in the quantum age, we just didn't know it" | Bert de Jong Director of Quantum System Accelerator at Berkeley Lab
Dr. Bert de Jong, Director of the Quantum Systems Accelerator at Berkeley National Lab, joins Eva Galant on Blond & Quantum to pull back the curtain on the part of quantum most people never hear about — the national labs quietly driving the...
Bond & Quantum Start-up Series Episode 5: What if AI itself is the missing piece to making quantum computers finally work? | Isaiah Hull FirstQMF
Quantum hardware exists. But making it work? That's an AI problem.Isaiah Hull, co-founder and CTO of FirstQFM, joins Eva Galant on Blond & Quantum to talk about the missing layer in the quantum stack — fou...
Blond & Quantum Episode 7: Q-Day already happened and nobody notices | Joe Spencer
Q-Day might have already happened. In the 1990s.Joe Spencer, UK Director at Global Quantum Intelligence Platform, joins Eva Galant on Blond & Quantum to talk about the real-world defense applications ...
Bond & Quantum Start-up Series Episode 4: Who's recording your data right now and why? | Marc Kaplan
"Harvest now, decrypt later" isn't a theory. It's happening right now.Marc Kaplan, CEO of VeriQloud, joins Eva Galant on Blond & Quantum to talk about the quiet cybersecurity threat hiding in plain sight — an...
Blond and Quantum Start-up Series Ep. 6: "AI agents are already trading and most hedge funds don't know they're losing" | Yianni Gamvros Co-founder and CEO of Quantum Signals.
The top hedge funds just dropped billions on AI compute. The other 95%? They're still using 10-year-old models.Yianni Gamvros, CEO and founder of Quantum Signal, joins Eva Galant on Blond & Quantum to talk...
Blond & Quantum Start-up Series Episode 3: What is the most 'boring' quantum computer is actually the one that changes everything? | Thien-An Nguyen Orca Computing🐋⚛️
Think quantum is still stuck in the lab? Think again.Thien-An Nguyen, CTO of Orca Computing, joins Eva Galant on Blond & Quantum to talk about what happens when you stop hyping the future and start shippin...
8: Killing the giant accelerator: the race to shrink particles accelerators (TAU Systems)
In this episode of Blond & Quantum, host Eva Galant sits down with Jerome Paye, Co-Founder and CEO of TAU Systems a Texas-based deep-tech startup building compact particle accelerators and soft X-ra...
Blond & Quantum Episode 6: The Race Nobody Is Talking About | Bill Vass (Booz Allen)
Bill Vass, CTO of Booz Allen Hamilton, joins Eva on Blond & Quantum to separate signal from noise in quantum.Bill built Amazon Braket. He runs thousands of engineers working on quantum, AI, and national security. And he has some sur...
Blond & Quantum Ep 6: Will Europe Lose the Quantum Race? | Eleni Diamanti (PCQT)
In this episode of Blond & Quantum, recorded on World Quantum Day, I sit down with Professor Eleni Diamanti — a rare force who moves seamlessly between fundamental research, national quantum strategy, and deep-tech entrepreneurship.<...
Blond & Quantum: Early-Stage Startups — Featuring Ish Dhand | QC Design
In this episode of Blond & Quantum, I sit down with Ish Dhand, Founder and CEO of QC Design — a startup building the essential design automation (EDA) layer for fault-tolerant quantum computers.We dive deep into w...
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Blond & Quantum 4: Quantum Advantage, Readiness & Real-World Use Cases | Michael Cuthbert, Director of NQCC
In this episode of Blonde and Quantum, I sit down with Michael Cuthbert, Director of the UK's National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) — the organisation established by the British government to shape and develop the quan...
Blond & Quantum #3: “Betting early on quantum: inside a $260M quantum & physics fund” with Olivier Tonneau, Partner at Quantonation
In this episode of Blond & Quantum, Eva sits down with Olivier Tonneau from Quantonation to unpack what it really takes to build — and back — a global quantum ecosystem.Fresh off closing more than $260M for Fund II, Olivier ...
Blond & Quantum #2: “The global quantum race: US, China & the rest of the world” with André König, Co-founder & CEO of Global Quantum Intelligence
In this episode of Blond & Quantum, Eva sits down with André König — Co-founder & CEO of Global Quantum Intelligence — for a high-level, honest breakdown of the real geopolitical landscape of quantum technology.From the ...
Episode #1 -What is quantum computing? | Conversation with Wasiq Bokhari, Executive Chairman of Pasqal
Welcome to the premiere of Blond & Quantum — the podcast where we break down quantum technology into real-world business impact. No Schrödinger equation required.In this first episode, host Eva Galant sits down with ...